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- Children's Hunger Born From Mothers' Trauma
  
  February 03, 2015
  
  A new Drexel public health study shows that trauma and chronic stress are a largely overlooked part of the picture of why one in five American households with young children live with food insecurity.
  
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- Hospitals Helping Violence Victims Could Save Millions
  
  January 26, 2015
  
  Drexel researchers have published the first study to systematically look at the economic outcomes of programs that help victims of violence change their lives with a hospital-based intervention.
  
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- Teens Abusing Prescription Pills Are A Growing Concern
  
  January 13, 2015
  
  Parents and physicians still aren’t doing enough to address the rise of “pharming,” or recreational use and abuse of prescription drugs, among teenagers, according to public health researchers at Drexel University.
  
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- Shaping Two Lives At Once
  
  January 07, 2015
  
  Joella Adams, MPH '14, was recently awarded a competitive scholarship for young investigators to present her research and attend the leading U.S. research conference on HIV, the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI). Her work, which started as a Community-Based Masters Project (CBMP) during her second year at Drexel, focuses on improving comprehensive interventions for HIV positive women during and following pregnancy here in Philadelphia.
  
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- Student Travels to Nation of Georgia to Study Health Systems
  
  December 22, 2014
  
  A Drexel student working toward his master’s degree in public health traveled to Georgia for the winter break to help create the groundwork for a new method of teaching new systems to public health practitioners.
  
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- CBMP Students Lead Design Challenge to Improve Trauma-Informed Care for Vulnerable Populations
  
  December 16, 2014
  
  Shoshana Akins and Caitlin O'Brien, second year MPH students concentrating in Health Management and Policy, recently presented their CBMP work to Patrick Kennedy. The duo is leading the Scattergood Foundation's 2014-2015 Design Challenge, which is looking to crowdsource trauma-informed products for use in homeless shelters.
  
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- Report Shows Challenges for Working Families in Transition Off of Public Benefits
  
  December 12, 2014
  
  A "cliff effect"—families losing benefits in the transition out of poverty—is the focus of a new policy report released today by Drexel’s Center for Hunger-Free Communities and Children’s HealthWatch based on data collected in Philadelphia from 2005 through 2013.
  
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- Modeling Health Systems as Complex Adaptive Systems in Country of Georgia over Winter Break
  
  December 03, 2014
  
  Second Year MPH student Alex Krengel, an SGO leader concentrating in HMP, heads to the Republic of Georgia next week for a winter break internship focused on developing lasting health infrastructures in the historically rich country.
  
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- Collaboration: Preparation for the Future
  
  December 03, 2014
  
  Faculty and staff from Drexel University’s graduate and professional programs in public health, law, health informatics and medicine gathered in October for a full-day workshop at the College of Medicine Simulation Center, organized by SPH students.
  
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- Study Maps How City Neighborhoods Affect Diabetes Risk
  
  November 25, 2014
  
  A new Drexel study published this month in the journal Advances in Preventive Medicine adds new insight into the role of the physical and social environment on the risk of diabetes, zip code by zip code throughout Philadelphia.
  
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